Regular 8

“Load it! Shoot it! Flip it!” I’d heard those words so many times from Michael Raso and the Film Photography Project (FPP) gang on their regular podcast since August 2019, that a year later it had become engrained in my psyche. Raso was referring to his new Double 8 (I prefer to use the term Regular 8, but Standard 8 is also used) film offerings and scanning services, and while it piqued my interest a bit at first, it wasn’t until after a chance notice of a beautiful Regular 8mm Brownie Movie Camera on eBay that I finally decided to bite. What follows is a summary of what my experience was like, including mini-reviews of the 1951 version of the Brownie Movie Camera, and of the FPP’s processing and scanning service for movie film.

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